Oct 11, 2004 21:43
Updating from the hotel computer this time, so I won't have to pay the handsome price of $1.38 (rougly $0.70 US) for time spent on the computer. Tom, still haven't seen any Skylines and therefor have no pictures of them. Post pictures of them and I will try to keep a lookout, I was half asleep when you described them to me last so I don't remember what you said. Since the last time I updated I've done a number of interesting things. We went to the Sunrise welcoming party on sunday night. Relatively uneventful, except for the crazy laser/hologram show and the fucking trolls hanging off the walls. That was fucking awesome but the food sucked and everyone here is at least a decade older than me. I ended up leaving early and just going to bed. The next day we got up and had breakfast in the hotel then went to a business meeting where a few people from SUN talked about shit that I didn't really pay that much attention to. They gave out some awards and there was some pretty cool performance art as well. This included an aboriginal dancer, the "Light and Water" dancers of Australian fame, this crazy acrobat guy that did awesome stuff with a rope hanging from the ceiling, and a couple of Circe De Sole style stilts walkers and acrobats. These were all representing Earth, Water, Air, and Fire (in that order), which in turn symbolized things that SUN needed to do to make good business. After that dad and I went on a ferry around the bay and I got some awesome shots of the famous Sydney Opera House and the Harbor Bridge (which in my opinion is more impressive). We also ate at a place that was fucking ridiculously priced, tasted horrible, and had bad service, but supposedly made up for that by being a place to "be seen". So fuck them and their horrible seafood. I also walked around the city a bunch and took a lot of photos. I was trying to get a couple shots of some of the graffiti here which is quite nice actually. The first day I saw some that had the old lady from Spirited Away in it but it's way too far to walk to and I've already forgotten where it was. I had a drink in a starbucks and got two CDs at an RCA store in the city (Kings of Convenience and Fourtet) then went to bed. Today we had a small event lined up for Sunrise, kind of a tourist type deal. We chose to do this thing called Artescapes which basically involved getting into a big protective suit and throwing paint at a canvas. They gave us practically everything to paint with except a paint brush (this included toilet scrubbers, childrens toys, and barbie doll heads). I made a painting which supposedly we get to keep and if we do I'm hanging in my room. I had a really awesome painting in the first 5 minutes but the thing goes on for about an hours so I decided to erase it and try to do better. I didn't, but what came up isn't horrible. Dad did a surprisingly good job on it though. I don't know what he plans on doing with the painting. Tonight we have a formal event to go to for which I just picked up a tux. The entertainment is supposedly coming off of a world tour to play for us but it's a big secret who it is. One of the ladies from sun that just walked by told me that Queen is in town so that wouldn't be too bad. It's still no Foreigner. Anyway I gotta wrap this up because there's a guy that wants to use it.